Word: foray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quarrel with him, for Author Thayer has reached an Everest of vulgarity that may well stand as a mark until standards of literary decency are chucked entirely. His fancy is that Mona Lisa is written by French Poet Francois Villon; it turns out to be a between-the-sheets foray into the political brawls and sexual excesses of Renaissance Italy. It begins with the hero. Giovantonio Del Balzo-Orsini, lying under his mother's bed as she submits to her wifely duties, and it maintains that level of fictional and historical curiosity throughout. Prominent in the milling cast...
...into an orchard mined by the retreating Germans and helps bring out ten dead and wounded G.I.s. The lieutenant breaks him to private on the spot. Days later, Loggins finds out just how phony the heroism was; Harris had already cased the mine locations on a previous apple-stealing foray...
Three of the works in this exhibition depart from the Neo-Plastic tendency for a foray into Neo-Impressionism. A series of sunsets are in the pointillist style. The illusion of light and warmth produced by the use of light and color is spoiled by a clinical and sterile application of paint...
Whitaker & Baxter, political pressagents, are a lanky, gentle-looking white-haired man and an uncommonly pretty redhead. In nearly 25 years, the firm of Whitaker & Baxter has managed 75 political campaigns (all but two confined to California) and has lost only five. Their biggest foray onto the national political landscape was management of the American Medical Association's successful campaign against Harry Truman's compulsory-health-insurance plan...
...dirty, futile business. Adam has no heroes, only victims. The time is 1944; the place, principally occupied Hungary, as the mighty Wehrmacht comes apart at the tank sprockets. A panoramic miniaturist, Author Böll paints vignettes that are often sharp and sometimes affecting. A sergeant on a liquor foray for his C.O. finds himself on the shifting front lines, but clings to his suitcase full of Tokay until a shell mixes his blood with the wine. A captain with a hopelessly shattered skull keeps repeating a meaningless word, "Bjeljogorsche, Bjeljogorsche." A doctor says, as if he himself were making...